Quote Originally Posted by soulholder View Post
Yea, but it's also fair to say they have a point in that there was no feasible way they could have gotten them without just joining a big-name guild. Idk about you, but I like to PvP on fair ground and to PvP for the sake of PvP'ing when it's all in good fun. It's why I camped the coliseum so much and participated in so many lower-level PvP tourneys. Same reason I just didn't care when the game started getting P2W.

I understand I'm only an anecdote, but If you recall NW got a lot of bez and quite a few rulers and a bunch of FD's. Since I was quitting I actually gave my bez (yes, even I managed to get them - I was largely a nonfactor by choice and by wallet) to my former guild commander who moved with me to NW because he was gonna stick around for a few months more. But the fact it took people to carry me to get them emphasizes the above point. We're all here early on and progressing. Think of what that means to the guy who joins the game a year into its release. Big disadvantage there. I care enough and recognize the significance of growing and culturing a community to have a good time, and we can't do that with exclusion. R:BF was an experiment, and it was largely the community that did the most damage to its own success before YNK/PLW did. Profits were dropping fast even before epics/upgrades and the insane power creep that followed. And the PvE content was pretty solid for its time to keep people at least engaged enough early-on.

As far as titles go, I really don't care. I play this game, like any game, for fun. I'm not going to grind titles I don't want to get. If I stop having fun, I do something that's more fun, and if I feel a reason to leave, I quit and that's that. Why else would I have prioritized the forums? They were more fun than the majority of R:BF and people can't P2W or sit behind pixels when PvP'ing on the boards Frankly, if it were my decision, I'd just remove titles altogether -I even dislike the UI clutter. But I recognize how unlikely and contrarian this notion is.
You don't have to join a big-name guild, you can make one. The PVP on fair ground is based on everyone having the same items, gear etc that you can get in game not from P2W stuff. So you got a problem right there. With new server we are all going to be equal, or should be equal and once the pvp starts ofc some guilds are going to get advantage. But what's wrong with that if they deserve it. Why not get a boss drops as a reward. I don't see what's the problem there.

Stratus got his boss drops from RMT, regardless whether you want to admit it or not. I don't think of people as a nonfactors if they come and join the pvp, nvm their gear, it's for the fun, esp if you aren't toxic. Pretty sure the guild members carry each other so you were no different. I don't think there is nothing wrong with person who just joins the game and has no boss drops, there should be some accs that he can obtain in game through other ways so he can lvl and engage in some sort of pvp, but he shouldn't have the best drop in the game right away.

Ok maybe you aren't competitive but many other players are, so don't be so subjective and try to think outside the box. I'm not a fan of titles as well, I'd prefer talis that you can just get from smaller bosses like there used to be in r5.